Sussex
Reference code
CUR/03
Title
Sussex
Date
1917 to 1931
Level of description
item
Extent and format
One notebook.
Octavo.
Black cover.
Octavo.
Black cover.
Scope and content
Notebook pages numbered with typed Index at back.
Handwritten notes, mainly in pen and ink (black with occasional red highlighting), with some notes in pencil.
Includes mainly pen and ink sketches, plans, cross-sections and other diagrams, with co-ordinates and measurements, as well as maps. Some printed material stuck in, including a newspaper cutting and other printed material.
Two letters are also included:
Between p. 31v-32r: letter from W[illiam] Boyd Dawkins to Eliot Curwen regarding Basque words. 23 February 1926
On p. 58: letter and sketch (attached to p. 57?) from Stuart Piggott to Dr Curwen regarding a Roman road near Torberry. 25 May 1927
Sites mainly located in Sussex, including Bosham, Chanctonbury Ring, Findon, Hurstpierpoint, Sompting and Steyning.
Handwritten notes, mainly in pen and ink (black with occasional red highlighting), with some notes in pencil.
Includes mainly pen and ink sketches, plans, cross-sections and other diagrams, with co-ordinates and measurements, as well as maps. Some printed material stuck in, including a newspaper cutting and other printed material.
Two letters are also included:
Between p. 31v-32r: letter from W[illiam] Boyd Dawkins to Eliot Curwen regarding Basque words. 23 February 1926
On p. 58: letter and sketch (attached to p. 57?) from Stuart Piggott to Dr Curwen regarding a Roman road near Torberry. 25 May 1927
Sites mainly located in Sussex, including Bosham, Chanctonbury Ring, Findon, Hurstpierpoint, Sompting and Steyning.
Creator
Curwen, Eliot (1865-1950), surgeon, traveller, antiquary
Dawkins, William Boyd (1837-1929), Knight, geologist and archaeologist
Piggott, Stuart Ernest (1910-1996), archaeologist
Dawkins, William Boyd (1837-1929), Knight, geologist and archaeologist
Piggott, Stuart Ernest (1910-1996), archaeologist